Comics Should Be Weird

Celebrating weird comics and the weirdos who made them (and make them). Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and whatever "Age" we're in now.

[comicsareweird]

Ajax-Farrell's LONE EAGLE barely made room for art, with the logo eating up half the cover.

[comicsareweird]

Wild RED COMET #5 cover, from the UK. 1961

[comicsareweird]

[comicsareweird]

He hasn't a toe.

[comicsareweird]

I think we all know where this is headed.

[comicsareweird]

They promised Dave no one would ever know he was fucking the dragonflies.

[comicsareweird]

There was surely a DC editor in the mid-sixties determined to prove that replacing a man's head with the right interplanetary object would sell a million copies.

[comicsareweird]

From GRIPS #1 (Silverwolf Comics). 1986.

Tim Vigil art.

[comicsareweird]

RAZOR 0 (London Night Studio) 1991. Everette Hartsoe story and art.

Working like hell to up the ante in the "grim and gritty" stakes. Slightly over the top. Maybe.

[comicsareweird]

As a supplement to the Gus Ricca covers posted earlier, a completely mad Gus Ricca page from RED SEAL COMICS 16 (1946).

An earlier panel from this story was used in Fredric Wertham's anti-comics tract, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT:

[comicsareweird]

Gus Ricca DYNAMIC COMICS covers. (Chesler Comics) 1944-1946.

Gus Ricca covers, featuring exposed brains, snakes being shot in half and giants wearing hats made out of airplanes.

[comicsareweird]

THEY WERE CHOSEN TO BE SURVIVORS 1-4 (Spectrum Comic Books. 1983.

Spectrum seemed to be a publisher designed to give writer/artist Steve Woron a place to showcase his creations. His sci-fi superhero saga SURVIVORS ran for four issues here, and would pop up here and there over the next few years at a variety of publishers.

Pretty clearly a labor of love for Woron, who still seems to be active, doing serialized fiction "illustrated" with awful AI-generated women on his blog.

[comicsareweird]

Sam Springer covers from MONKEYSHINES COMICS (Ace Magazines), 1944-1946.

Springer's covers presented a strange, slanted perspective, featuring convoluted gags that generally made no sense at all.

Weird.